Anthropological evidence has been found in the cultivation of maca in Peru since the year 1600 a. C. Maca was considered by the Incas as a gift from the gods. [11] [12] They, and crops such as food, used in religious ceremonies for dances and rituals. Spanish chronicles report that during the conquest of Peru, animals brought from Spain not play normally at this point, the natives warned the conquerors who fed their animals with maca, with what they got the levels of normal reproduction. Thus, during the first hundred years of settlement was part of the taxes imposed by the mandated [13].
With respect to the stretcher, Father Cobo, [4] during the colonial era, was that "Maca grows in the most rugged and cold of the highlands where there is no chance of growing any other plant food. "
The COPROB Peru's government agency, has declared one of the flagship products of Peru on July 28, 2004.
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